The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) has entered its third year of operation. The ISTC opened in March 1994, under the auspices of an intergovernmental agreement between the Russian Federation, the European Union, Japan, and the United States. Sweden is also a funding Party; Kazakstan, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Kirgizstan are other CIS Parties. The Governing Board appointed Professor Jean-Pierre Contzen as Chairman of the Board. He is Director General, Directorate General of the Joint Research Centers of the European Commission. It also appointed a new Deputy Executive Director, Mr. Shinichiro Ogura, formerly Director for Reactor Regulation in the Nuclear Safety Bureau of Japan's Science and Technology Agency (STA).
The Board adopted the two-year review by the Parties of the ISTC Agreement.
The Parties used this opportunity to evaluate the implementation of the Agreement,
assess the
Center's achievements, and provide guidance to further enhance the ISTC's
operations. The report highlights that the ISTC is a unique and unprecedented
organization because of its nonproliferation objectives, its multilateral
composition, and its range of activities. In a very short period of time,
the ISTC has developed into a stable and effective organization capable of
performing its basic function of developing, approving, funding, and monitoring
scientific projects for peaceful purposes. The Parties view that the ISTC
has made a good start toward meeting its objectives, but that its nonproliferation
mission, accomplished through scientific and technical cooperation, deserves
continued support from the Parties as well as from new partners. Cooperation
through the ISTC now plays an important role in maintaining the potential
of the scientific community of the Russian Federation and other CIS Parties.
The review recommends that future activities should include utilizing project
results by developing partnerships between CIS institutes and U.S., EU, Japanese
and other research and commercial parties, and more focus on projects in biotechnology/biomedicine,
space sciences and technologies, waste management, and nonproliferation technologies.
The ISTC now supports about 12,500 CIS scientists and engineers, the majorty of which possess skills related to weapons of mass destruction or missile delivery systems. ISTC's Governing Board approved about $17 million on March 28 for new and follow-on civilian scientific and technical projects in Russia, Kazakstan, Armenia, and Kirgizstan, bringing total funding to $98 million for 236 projects. The 34 new projects cover the technology areas of: nuclear reactor safety and risk reduction; storage and disposal of nuclear wastes; high energy physics diagnostic instruments for CERN; mitigation of fire hazards in industrial and agricultural enterprises; medical applications including a compact x-ray machine, immunosupression drug research, and high contrast ceramic x-ray films; earthquake and comprehensive test ban treaty seismic monitoring; developing chemical products from toxic rocket fuel; magneto-hydrodynamic generators for geology and physics; and thin film superconductors. Industries, universities and national laboratories in Europe, Japan, and the United States will collaborate with CIS scientists on these projects.
Representatives of the two key nuclear design institutes of the Russian Federation Arzamas-16 (Sarov) and Chelyabinsk-70 (Snezhinsk) gave presentations to the Board on ISTC projects underway at their institutes. Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70 scientists participate in numerous ISTC projects that utilize their unique talents and skills to contribut to solutions of important national and international problems of a non-military nature.
The ISTC also sponsors a seminar series. The next seminar, "Nuclear Physical Methods for Detection of Explosives and Control of Fissile Materials for Nonproliferation (Obninsk)," will take place on the eve of the P-8 Nuclear Summit in Moscow.
*************************************************************************** PROJECTS APPROVED FOR FUNDING AT THE NINTH MEETING OF THE ISTC GOVERNING BOARD (March 28-29, 1996)
1. Approved Projects
238 INVESTIGATION OF SEMICONDUCTORS IN ULTRAHIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS.
Project Manager: O.M. Tatsenko, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Duration: 36
months; Funding Party: US
310 THEORETICAL STUDY OF GENERATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
FROM A PLASMA WITH ANISOTROPIC ELECTRON VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION. Project Manager:
V.T.Tikhonchuk, Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow); Other Participating Russian
Institution: Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific Research
Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party:
US
311 THEORETICAL STUDY OF INTENSE HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
PROPAGATION IN ATMOSPHERE INCLUDING NONSTATIONARY, NONLINEAR AND KINETIC EFFECTS.
Project Manager: V.A.Terekhin, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Other Participating
Russian Institution: Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow); Duration: 24 months;
Funding Party: US
326 DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNICAL PROJECT OF THE X-RAY IRRADIATOR ON THE
BASIS OF
THE MINIATURE PULSED ACCELERATOR ARSA FOR APPLICATION IN MEDICINE. Project
Manager: S.L.Ehl'yash, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific
Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Duration: 24 months; Funding
Parties: EU and US
338 PLASMACHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT WITH PROCESSING URANIUM
HEXFLUORIDE
INTO URANIUM OXIDES FOR LONG STORAGE AND FLUORINE REGENERATION AS UNAQUEOUS
HYDROGEN
FLUORIDE.
Project Manager: E.A.Filippov, Scientific Research Institute of Chemical Technology
(Moscow); Other Participating Russian Institution: Siberian Chemical Combinat
(Seversk); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: US
344 CENTRIFUGAL EXTRACTORS FOR PROCESSING MEDICINES.
Project Manager: G.I.Kuznetsov, Scientific Research and Design Institute of
Mounting Technology (Moscow); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: US
345 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS THE TECHNICAL DESIGN AND THE
MANUFACTURING
OF THE INNER TRACK SYSTEM (ITS) AND OF THE FORWARD MULTIPLICITY DETECTOR (FMD-MCP)
FOR THE ALICE EXPERIMENT AT CERN.
Project Manager: E.N.Sokolov, Central Design Bureau of Machine Building (St.
Petersburg); Other Participating Russian Institutions: St. Petersburg State
University, Institute for Physics (St. Petersburg), Mendeleev Institute of
Metrology (St Petersburg), Institute of Nuclear Research (Moscow), Kurchatov
Research Center (Moscow), Scientific Production Association "Avangard" (St.
Petersburg), Scientific Production Association "Grant" (St. Petersburg), Institute
of Nuclear Physics (Gatchina); Duration: 24 months; Funding Party: EU
355 EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF FILTRATION IGNITION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF CRITERIA OF FIRE AND EXPLOSION SAFETY AT SOME
INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES. Project Manager: V.V.Barzykin, Institute
for Structural Macrokinetics (Moscow) Other Participating Russian Institution:
Institute of Chemical Physics (Chernogolovka, Moscow region); Duration: 36
months; Funding Parties:
EU, US and Sweden
370 NON-EQUILIBRIUM RADIOACTIVE TRANSFER AND KINETICS OF NUCLEAR
REACTIONS IN THE THEORY OF SUPERNOVA STARS. Project Manager: V.S.Imshennik,
Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute
of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Other Participating Russian Institutions:
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow), Moscow State University,
Stenberg State Astronomical Institute (Moscow); Initial Foreign Collaborator:
Max-Planck-Institut feur Astrophysik, Garching (Germany); Duration: 36 months;
Funding Party: EU
374 PULSED HIGH-POWER SYSTEMS FOR GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS.
Project Manager: A.A.Avagimov, Institute of High Temperatures, High Energy
Density Research Center (Moscow); Other Participating Russian Institutions:
Troitsk Institute of Innovations and Thermonuclear Research (Troitsk); Moscow
Aircraft Institute (Moscow), Production Association "Nizhegorodskiy Mashinostroitelniy
Zavod" (Nizhny Novgorod), Research and Production Association "Soyuz" (Lubertsy,
Moscow region), Central Research and Design Bureau (Moscow), Russian Chemical-Technological
University, Centre "Technology of Energetic Condensed System" (Moscow), All-Russian
Research and Development Institute of Geophysical Methods of Prospecting (Moscow);
Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: US and Japan
375 DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURE OF THE MULTIFUNCTIONAL SHOCK TUBE AND
MULTIPLY-PULSED X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS FOR RAYLEIGH-TALOR AND RICHMYER-MESHKOV
INSTABILITIES INVESTIGATION.
Project Manager: Yu.A.Kucherenko, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (Snezhinsk); Initial Foreign
Collaborator: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US); Duration: 36 months;
Funding Party: US
376 RESEARCH ON THE PROCESS OF LIQUID HIGH-LEVEL WASTE SOLIDIFICATION IN
INDUCTION SMELTER WITH COLD CRUCIBLE.
Project Manager: T.V.Smelova, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of
Inorganic Materials (Moscow); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: Japan
401 THE STUDY OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS ACTIONS.
Project Manager: E.I.Dudich, Institute of Immunology of State Concern "Biopreparat"
(Lubuchany, Moscow region); Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: EU, US and
Sweden
408 INVESTIGATION OF EXPLOSIVE MELT-WATER INTERACTION (STEAM EXPLOSION)
UNDER SEVERE ACCIDENTS AT NPP WITH LIGHT WATER REACTORS. Project Manager:
O.B.Drennov, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific Research
Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Other Participating Russian Institute:
Research Engineering Centre of Nuclear Plants Safety (Electrogorsk); Duration:
36 months; Funding Parties: EU and US
411 INVESTIGATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS,
PRINCIPLES OF EQUIPMENT CONSTRUCTION AND EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE OF MULTIFREQUENCY
ULTRASONIC FLAW-DETECTOR. Project Manager: V.V.Grebennikov, Scientific Research
and Design Institute of Mounting Technology (Moscow); Other Participating
Russian Institutions: Scientific and Production Center of Non-destructive
Testing (Moscow), Kurchatov Research, Center of New Technologies (Moscow);
Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: EU and US
427 WORKING OUT OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF UTILIZATION OF HIGH-TOXIC COMPONENT
OF ROCKET FUEL - 1,1-DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE AND PRODUCING OF A NUMBER VALUABLE
PRODUCTS ON ITS BASIS.
Project Manager: V.A.Lopyrev, Institute of Organic Chemistry (Irkutsk); Other
Participating Russian Institutions: Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry
and Technology of Elementoorganic Compounds (Moscow); Russian Scientific Center
"Applied Chemistry" (St. Petersburg); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party:
EU and US
447 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT OF DIAMOND DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY.
Project Manager: A.V.Krasilnikov, Troitsk Institute of Innovations and Thermonuclear
Research (Troitsk); Other Participating Russian Institutions: Institute of
Physical and Technical Problems (Dubna), Research, Development and Scientific
Production Center "Orion" (Moscow), Center for Technology and Fibre Systems
"CENTOS" (Troitsk); Initial Foreign Collaborators: Joint European Torus (JET),
Culham (United Kingdom), PTW-Freiburg, Freiberg (Germany), Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory, Princeton (US), JAERI, Tokyo (Japan); Duration: 36 months;
Funding Party: US
470 PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF POWDER MATERIALS MICROPARTICLES ACCELERATION
IN PULSED ELECTROTHERMAL LAUNCHER.
Project Manager: E.Ya. Shkolnikov, Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (Moscow);
Other Participating Russian Institute: Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Duration: 36
months;Funding Party: EU and US
484 MODULAR MULTIFUNCTIONAL SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING.
Project Manager: S.V.Krivasheyev, Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (Moscow);
Other Participating Russian Institute: Scientific Research Institute of Pulse
Technique (Moscow); Duration: 24 months; Funding Party: US
490 STUDY OF LIGHTING GOVERNED BY RELATIVISTIC RUNAWAY ELECTRONS.
Project Manager: L.P.Babich, Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific
Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Other Participating Russian
Institute: Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow); Duration: 36 months; Funding
Party: US
502 THEORETICAL AND TEST ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULICALLY INDUCED VIBRATIONS
IN COMPACT CURLING TUBE STEAM GENERATORS. Project Manager: V.I.Solonin, Bauman
Moscow State Technical University (Moscow); Other Participating Russian Institutions:
Scientific Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (Moscow),
Experimental and Design Bureau of Machinery (Nizhny Novgorod); Initial Foreign
Collaborator: ANSALDO, Nuclear Division, Genova (Italy) Duration: 24 months;
Funding Parties: EU and Japan
517 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF REACTOR RADIATION SCATTERING IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
Project Manager: M.E.Netecha, Scientific Research and Development Institute
of Power Engineering (Moscow); Other Participating Russian Institution: Institute
of Atomic Energy of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Kurchatov,
(Kazakhstan); Duration: 24 months; Funding Party: Japan
A-20 ELABORATION OF BIOCATALYTIC PROCESSES OF PRODUCTION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVE COMPOUNDS. Project Manager: Z.N.Bghdasarian, Armenian Institute of Applied Chemistry "ARIAK", Yerevan (Armenia); Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: EU, US and Japan
A-22 ELABORATION OF TECHNOLOGY OF SUPERMICRON HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING
FILMS AND MULTILAYER STRUCTURES PREPARATION BY SOL-GEL METHOD. Project Manager:
A.M.Artsumanian, Armenian Institute of Applied Chemistry "ARIAK", Yerevan
(Armenia);
Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: US
K-40 TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCTION OF BERYLLIUM MATERIALS AND COATINGS AND INVESTIGATION OF ITS PROPERTIES AT THE CONDITIONS SIMULATING THE TEMPERATURE-STRENGTH, GASEOUS AND RADIATION EFFECTS OF TNR. Project Manager: K.K.Kadyrzhanov, Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Almaty (Kazakhstan); Other Participating Institutions: State Holding Company "Ulba", Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan), Institute of Atomic Energy of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Almaty (Kazakhstan), Kazakh National University, Scientific Research Instituute of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Almaty (Kazakhstan); Funding Party: US
K-53 CHARACTERIZATION OF RADIOLOGICAL AND NON-RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS AT
THE SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE.
Project Manager: C.Khajekber, Institute
of Nuclear Safety and Ecology, Almaty (Kazakhstan); Other Participating Institution:
Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan,
Kurchatov (Kazakhstan); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: US
K-56 SIMULATION OF CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN UNDERGROUND WATER AT SEMIPALATINSK
NUCLEAR TEST SITE.
Project Manager: D.N.Belyashov, Institute of Geophysical Researches of the
National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Kaskelen (Kazakhstan); Other Participating
Institution: Institute of Atomic Energy of the National Nuclear Center of
Kazakhstan, Almaty (Kazakhstan); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: US
K-57 CREATION OF SYSTEM FOR STORAGE, OPERATIVE CONTROL AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND AMPOULE SOURCES OF IONIZING RADIATION (ASIR) ON "BAIKAL-1"
STAND COMPLEX MEETING THE INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING. Project Manager: L.N.Tikhomirov, Institute of Atomic
Energy of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Almaty (Kazakhstan);
Duration: 24 months;
Funding Party: US
K-63 NUCLEAR TEST BAN MONITORING AND EARTHQUAKE MONITORING IN KAZAKHSTAN. Project Manager: N.Belyashova, Institute of Geophysical Researches of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, Kaskelen (Kazakhstan); Other Participating Institution: Institute of Dynamics of Geosphere, Moscow (Russia), Complex Seismological Expedition, Talgar (Kazakhstan); Initial Foreign Collaborators: Trustees of Colombia University, New-York (US); Duration: 36 months; Funding Parties: EU, US and Sweden
KR-67 NEW INFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING AND PERFORMING OPEN PIT BLASTING
JOBS.
Project Manager: V.A.Kovalenko, Kirgiz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek
(Kirgizia); Other Participating Institution: Moscow Engineering Physical Institute,
Moscow (Russia); Duration: 36 months; Funding Party: EU
2. Approved for Feasibility Study
371 CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS FOR THE PU- UTILIZATION IN LWR TYPE
REACTORS USING IPPE FACILITIES.
Project Manager: L.A.Kochetkov, Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
(Obninsk); Other Participating Russian Institutions: Khlopin Radium Institute
(St. Petersburg), Kurchatov Research Center (Moscow), Scientific Research
Association "Mayak" (Oziorsk); Initial Foreign Collaborators: Belgonuclaire,
Mol (Belgium), SCK/CEN, Mol (Belgium); Funding Party: EU, Japan and Sweden
392 LUMINESCENT OPTICAL CERAMICS FOR X-RAY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY.
Project Manager: V.A.Demidenko, Vavilov State Optical Institute (St. Petersburg);
Funding Parties: EU, US and Sweden
3. Supplemental Funding for Previously Approved Projects
161.2 g-RAY SPECTROSCOPY OF TOKAMAK PLASMAS. Project Manager: V.Kiptily, Ioffe Physical Technical institute (St. Petersburg); Other Participating Russian Institutions: Kurchatov Research Center (Moscow), Russian Federal Nuclear Center- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov); Initial Foreign Collaborators: ENEA, Frascati (Italy), Joint European Torus (JET), Culham (United Kingdom); Duration: 24 months; Funding Party: EU
183.2 MEASUREMENTS OF THE FISSION NEUTRON SPECTRA OF THE MINOR ACTINIDES.
SPONTANEOUS FISSION OF Pu-240, 242 AND THERMAL NEUTRON INDUCED FISSION OF
Cm-243, 245. Project Manager:
L.V. Drapchinsky, Khlopin Radium institute (St. Petersburg); Initial Foreign
Collaborators: COGEMA, Veizy (France), ENEA, Frascati (Italy), JAERI, Tokyo
(Japan); Duration: 24 months; Funding Parties: EU and Japan